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The building sector has been pumped up from the backlog of construction work, but demand is beginning to ease as the cost of mortgages increases.

NAB has committed to lending at least a further $6 billion by 2029 towards affordable and specialist housing.

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Household financial stress will ratchet higher as rates increase and would then be impacted by any downturn in the labour market, Westpac Bank has warned.

RBA governor Philip Lowe has issued an apology to borrowers who “acted on what we’d said and now regret what they had done.”

The third-party channel has broken 70 per cent market share for the first time in history, new MFAA data shows.

Data averages are ‘masking’ increased mortgagor stress levels over their home loan debt, a NAB behavioural economist has explained.

The central bank’s monetary policy approach has been criticised, the panel responsible for the review has revealed.

Making news this week … high inflation “only temporary”, RBA says, ‘mortgage stress’ highest since pre-pandemic, RBNZ delivers biggest rate hike yet, tighter regulation push for BNPL, ...